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 Definitions of Fallow  [ˈfæl oʊ]  

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Definition of 'Fallow' Random House Webster's College Dictionary 

1. (adj.) fallow
(of land) plowed and left unseeded for a season or more; uncultivated.

2.  fallow
not in use; inactive:
creative energies lying fallow.

3. (n.) fallow
land that has undergone plowing and harrowing and has been left unseeded for one or more growing seasons.

4. (v.t.) fallow
to make (land) fallow for agricultural purposes.

5. (adj.) fallow
pale yellow-brown.

Etymology:  (bef. 1000; ME, OE fealu)

Definition of 'Fallow' Princeton's WordNet 

1. (adj) fallow
cultivated land that is not seeded for one or more growing seasons

2. (adj) fallow
left unplowed and unseeded during a growing season
"fallow farmland"

3. (adj) fallow
undeveloped but potentially useful
"a fallow gold market"


Definition of 'Fallow' Webster Dictionary 

1. (adj) Fallow
pale red or pale yellow; as, a fallow deer or greyhound

2. (noun) Fallow
left untilled or unsowed after plowing; uncultivated; as, fallow ground

3. (noun) Fallow
plowed land

4. (noun) Fallow
land that has lain a year or more untilled or unseeded; land plowed without being sowed for the season

5. (noun) Fallow
the plowing or tilling of land, without sowing it for a season; as, summer fallow, properly conducted, has ever been found a sure method of destroying weeds

6. (noun) Fallow
to plow, harrow, and break up, as land, without seeding, for the purpose of destroying weeds and insects, and rendering it mellow; as, it is profitable to fallow cold, strong, clayey land


Translation of 'Fallow' Kernerman English Multilingual Dictionary 

Sense: (of land) left to its own natural growth and not planted with seeds
We will let this field lie fallow for a year; fallow fields.

Afrikaans flag Afrikaans: braak, onbebou, onbewerk Arabic flag Arabic: غَير مَزروعَه Bulgarian flag Bulgarian: незасят
Brazilian flag Brazilian: sem cultivo Czech flag Czech: neobdělaný German flag German: brach (liegend)
Danish flag Danish: brak; uopdyrket Greek flag Greek: αγρανάπαυση Spanish flag Spanish: en barbecho
Estonian flag Estonian: kesas Farsi flag Farsi: آیشی؛ کشت نشده Finnish flag Finnish: kesanto-
French flag French: en friche Hebrew flag Hebrew: שְׂדֶה בּוּר Hindi flag Hindi: परती छोड़ देना
Croatian flag Croatian: na ugaru (iskopano, ali n Hungarian flag Hungarian: parlagon hagyott Indonesian flag Indonesian: terbengkalai
Icelandic flag Icelandic: hvíldar-, sem er ekki ræk Italian flag Italian: incolto Japanese flag Japanese: 休閑中の
Korean flag Korean: 개간하지 않은 Lithuanian flag Lithuanian: pūdymas Latvian flag Latvian: atstāt papuvē
Malay flag Malay: tanah rang Dutch flag Dutch: braak Norwegian flag Norwegian: brakk(-)
Polish flag Polish: leżący odłogiem Persian flag Persian: آیشی؛ کشت نشده Pashto flag Pashto: شودياره، سادين، شاره (يوې
Portuguese flag Portuguese: em pousio/de ...? sem cul Romanian flag Romanian: necultivat Russian flag Russian: необработанный
Slovak flag Slovak: ležiaci ladom Slovenian flag Slovenian: neobdelan Serbian flag Serbian: preorana zemlja
Swedish flag Swedish: träda Thai flag Thai: ซึ่งยังไม่ได้เพาะปลูก Turkish flag Turkish: nadas
Taiwanese flag Taiwanese: 休耕的 Ukrainian flag Ukrainian: земля під паром, пар Urdu flag Urdu: نا کاشتہ
Vietnamese flag Vietnamese: bỏ hoang; không canh tác Chinese flag Chinese: 休耕的

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